The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-10
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4ue hohlu VI EOllCe ana tlfe COm
missoners reported the sustaining q
charges sgainst Officer Charles Stephens
His suspension was confirmed and Johr
Druschel, extraman. confirmed as resu
lar and Richard Wilkie confirmed rs :
snbatitute Daputy Sergeant.
Regular monthly reports were received
from the several standing committees and
Boards named below. Embraced III these
reports were t1ila a9gregatiug the follow.
ing amoun.s: City Pfiaon, 1856 50; Health,
Slfo 81; Cemeteries, ISL 10; Markets,
$40 SO; Board Of Police and Fire
Commissioner, on account OF the Fire
Department, $l4G 81; on account OF the
Police Department, sl03 LOOT this
amount S37 waH for Chief smith for killing
dogs and Si5 for summoning Council and
Council committees during the mouthe of
June and July. These several amounts
we're ordered paid. 5f ( s y 3 '.11 4
Tho Committee on Scales recommended
that the Committee on Ordinances be in.
strueted to frame an ordiraacs granting to
the city weighers the total receipts rom
tho acsles between May and October l Of
each year, In accordance with petition
from the weighers, asking that this be
done. Such Recommendation was sdopt.
ed. The weighcrs claim that since the
uee OF natural gas rs a fuel became gen.
eral their revenue during the summer
months, under the percentage System, il
practically nothing. iS53I' Id
5at u. r. ". APPROPRIATIONS. 4 Z; 3 W;
The Board Of Public Works asked for.
appropriations 10 pay for work completed
and In progress, aB follows: Ont OF the
General Fund-R. Campbell L Co.. bal.
ance due for paving Main from Ninth IA
Third atreets,E S2,700.3l; came, balance
due Tor paving Alley is from Alley B to
Market street, $40 IS; ssme, paving Four.
teonth street from Chapline to Byron
streets, s3,06S.sG; same, paving -Four.
teen.h street from Byron to jacob e!reets,
Sl,74i.22; William stobbs, curbing GU
Fourteenth street between Chaplino aud
Woods street, $3.50, rs. Total, IS, 022 GO,
The City CLERK was instructed to draw his
orders on tho Receiver to pay these
amounts. .: lg4s
The licsnae granted to Scott. Grant 4
Co, to keep saloon at the Mcclure house
Was annulled and a like licenas granted
to Stamm K Mcclure. Whit Stevenson
wss granted license to keep shooting
gallery at No. 1912 Market street. 5s&ts :
petition from Bishop Kahn asking that
the city grant treog to the boya' orphan.
age coon to DO opened in this city, the
same al Ia now granted to the Children's
Homo aud tho gitla' orphanage in North
Wheeling, was granted. This petition
WAS frat acted upon BY the First; when It
camo up III tho Second, the Chair endea.
vored to make the point tina. 1t involved
an expenditure Of money and could not
therefore be acted on frat, by the First.
This point did not hold. ,I'E
y A resolution offered by Mr.. Garvin in.
esructinS the Board Of Public Works to
use the cobble stones taken from streets
that sre to be paved with brick, to pave
Eod street IRON Twelfth north % far ~ II
may doom proper, was passed. . Z 4
A resolution olered by Mr.. Gundlinp.
directing tho Board Of Public Works 10
put q sewer III Alley 8, from Market to
Main street. was adopted alter a wordy
discussion as 10 whether the Council had
the right to pass auch an order. SSlIIs9I
In the First Branch Mayor Seabrisht
presided. Mr.. McGregor was the only ab-